| Description Of Item | Newspaper cutting on a self-accused murderer in Glasgow, from the collection of Thomas Laycock. Robert M’Millan, charged of being drunk and disorderly, had been found undressing. Once taken into custody, he had stated that he was involved in the murder of Margaret Whiteley on Durham Street, Belfast. He stated after the murder he washed his clothes at his mother’s house in Belfast, showing the officers red stains on his jacket, shirt, and vest. M’Millan was locked up, and officers later found him trying to hang himself with the strap of his braces attached to the iron window bars. He later denied all knowledge of the murder, stating he had been reading about it in the newspapers and that it had made such an impression on him, that when drunk connected himself to the affair. |